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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crazy_monkey1956" data-source="post: 3724370" data-attributes="member: 49514">Publicly the King is seen as reasonably benevolent, but he rarely appears in public.  He has advisors and others speak for him.  Rumors state that he and his advisors have taken precautions to protect him from assassins.  This includes only appearing at events in which everyone present is a supporter...with dissenting voices, in at least one infamous instance, arrested.Noran is a frontier lord, holding much of the north-eastern border agaisnt infrequent orcish incursions.  His primary motivation for holding his land's troops from the Thay-Emiran War appears to be to not leave the northeastern border undefended.  He has also publicly criticized some of the King's other decisions as well, notably the King's recent limitations on the self-governance of individual Lords in their own lands (tax collectors, for example, were recently put under the jurisdiction of a Minister of Taxation answerable to the King, bypassing the Lords completely).  Noran, in turn, has been criticised for being blind to the threat that Thay poses should they overrun the Emirates.  In addition, as a semi-retired adventurer who was granted land and a title, some of the hereditary Lords find Noran uncouth and ignorant, sometimes willfully so, of tradition.</blockquote>